Brent Williams Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

• United Health Group - Strategy & Innovation - New Product DevelopmentOptum Rx – Pharma Services
• Developing a payer and pharma agnostic comprehensive specialty patient data product, including real time pharmacy operations data and longitudinal adherence and demographics data, to help drive first fill rates and.
• Developing a partnership strategy for Pharma Services gene and cell therapy products in partnership with Optum Frontier Therapies, Optum’s health services business dedicated to rare, orphan, and cell/gene.
• Guided the development of a multi-PBM proposal to CMS for a CMMI demonstration featuring value based contracting approaches for the payment of new-to-market prescription therapies with extreme high cost, uncertain.
• Developing a population health focused health equity product suite aiming to bring innovative approaches to drive health equity value within the commercial health plan market
• Co-authored a white paper covering CMS strategic considerations stemming from the Inflation Reduction Act, to be presented by UnitedHealth Group CEO to CMS as a means for furthering partnership opportunitiesOptum.

Chapel Hill, NC

MBA Student Association - VP Finance, FP&A. TA MBA772 - Financial Management. Eshelman Innovation Lab Cohort 5, NCGrowth SMB Business Analyst. Healthcare Club, Soccer Club, Tennis Club.

• Drove Gene Therapy reinsurance product team progress through internal product governance; presented as part of formal team update to OptumRx leadership
• Developed PBM strategic trends into industry pre-read for Optum Rx leadership as part of Quarterly Strategy and Performance Review
• Synthesized clinical effectiveness and cost benefit research to complete a Roctavian gene therapy valuation analysis

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

• Provided strategic consulting and implementation of recommendations to a small business provider of in-home care services to eastern North Carolina
• Conceived, designed, and delivered a new branded consumer facing website
• Conducted internal accounting study to provide clarity into care delivery unit economics
• Developed recommendations for improved technology stack updates to increase efficiencies in internal team operations

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Led a team of six over four months to redesign North Carolina’s Cash Assistance federal reporting, avoiding a pending $85M state audit penaltyDirected a team of ten creating an analytics solution to visualize the flow of children through state foster care systems, allowing client decision makers to easily see change over timeCreated a 30+ table foster care.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Directed software testing and liaised with partners, orchestrating efforts of a team of five to achieve functional interface partner software connections in anticipation of product launchWrote and executed 200+ test scripts and conditions for future tests of program eligibility, product form generation, payment processing, and software interface.

Raleigh, NC

Coordinated test initiatives for a team of six for audit document storage, supporting recovery of $4.1M in incorrect charges, and a savings of $28M for the NC Department of Medical Assistance

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Healthcare; Business Analytics & Management Science

MBA Student Association - VP Finance - FP&A. TA MBA772 - Financial Management. Eshelman Innovation Lab Cohort 5, NCGrowth SMB Business.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication Studies

Pearl L Cavin Initial Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Dean’s list Semester Abroad (Spring 2011) – Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam –.

Education record